Queen Victoria's Nine Children, Nine Fates

The journey of Queen Victoria extended far beyond her supreme power on the throne of the world's largest empire, stretching across the turbulent lives of her nine children. Beneath the velvet robes and glittering crown lies a tear-soaked canvas of bizarre fates: one watched her own son seize the throne and plunge the nation into the catastrophe of war, while another bore the fatal hemophilia gene that ultimately brought down a grand dynasty. From tragic losses of loved ones and marriages traded for political alliances to secrets burned away in final diary pages, were the destinies of those nine children a blessing or a curse preordained for Europe's most powerful family?